 Thiaw asSenegal manager in 2025 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Pape Bouna Thiaw | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1981-02-05)5 February 1981 (age 45) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Dakar,Senegal | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Senegal (manager) | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1998–1999 | Saint-Étienne | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1999 | SR Delémont | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1999–2000 | Istres | 25 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
| 2000–2001 | Lausanne-Sport | 24 | (11) | ||||||||||||||
| 2001–2002 | Strasbourg | 10 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2002 | →Dynamo Moscow (loan) | 6 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2002–2003 | Lausanne-Sport | 15 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2003–2004 | Metz | 26 | (12) | ||||||||||||||
| 2004–2007 | Deportivo Alavés | 26 | (11) | ||||||||||||||
| 2007 | →Lorca (loan) | 8 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | US Créteil | 15 | (8) | ||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Atlético Ciudad | 11 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 169 | (69) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2001–2003 | Senegal | 16 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2021 | Niarry Tally | ||||||||||||||||
| 2022–2024 | Senegal A' | ||||||||||||||||
| 2024– | Senegal | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Pape Bouna Thiaw (born 5 February 1981) is aSenegalesefootball manager and a former player who played as aforward. He is the manager of theSenegal national football team.
He played for several clubs in France, Switzerland and Spain, as well asDynamo Moscow in Russia on a six-month loan fromStrasbourg.
He played forSenegal national football team and was a participant at the2002 FIFA World Cup. He scored 5 goals for his country.
In 2008, while playing for US Créteil in France, Thiaw was reported to have been placed under amandat de dépôt (detention warrant) in connection with a domestic violence case. French media reported that he was tried in absentia and accused of breaking his wife’s nose, facing a potential one year prison sentence. He did not appear at the hearing, resulting in an arrest warrant and a firm one year sentence.[1]
Thiaw was the manager of theSenegal A' national team that won the2022 African Nations Championship.[2] African Nations Championship limits the squads to players from the domestic league. The main Senegal squad that participates in theFIFA World Cup andAfrica Cup of Nations and includes players from the foreign clubs was managed byAliou Cissé. Thiaw was appointed coach of the Senegal national football team on 13 December 2024, following the latter dismissal two month before.[3]
In October 2025, he led Senegal to qualify to the2026 FIFA World Cup.[4] In January 2026, Thiaw coached Senegal to win the2025 Africa Cup of Nations, defeatingMorocco 1–0 in extra time.[5] During theAFCON final, he urged his players to leave the field in protest after the referee awarded Morocco a penalty in stoppage time, which prompted disciplinary proceedings against him after the match.[6][7] This led to him being banned for five games and fined $100,000 for "unsporting conduct" and "bringing the game into disrepute" by theConfederation of African Football.[8]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senegal | 2001 | 10 | 5 |
| 2002 | 5 | 0 | |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 16 | 5 | |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13 January 2001 | Nakivubo Stadium,Kampala, Uganda |  Uganda | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2002 Africa Cup of Nations qualification | [10] |
| 2 | 21 July 2001 | Independence Stadium,Windhoek, Namibia |  Namibia | 1–0 | 5–0 | 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification | [11] |
| 3 | 3–0 | ||||||
| 4 | 4 October 2001 | Stade Bollaert-Delelis,Lens, France |  Japan | 2–0 | 2–0 | Friendly | [12] |
| 5 | 26 December 2001 | Stade Léopold Sédar Senghor,Dakar, Senegal |  Burkina Faso | 1–1 | 2–4 | Friendly | [13] |
| Team | From | To | Record | Ref | |||||||
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| P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % | ||||
| Senegal | 2 December 2024 | Present | 21 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 49 | 8 | +41 | 080.95 | |
| Total | 21 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 49 | 8 | +41 | 080.95 | |||
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